Zhou Guo has accumulated experience in dealing with such emergencies after Ji Li's captivity and death, so the situation in the country is not as chaotic as last time. This time, the Zhou people only issued an emergency mobilization order to strengthen the defense of various cities, and did not make any moves that excessively stimulated the outside world.

Xirong's betrayal and Dongyi's comeback made the dynasty vulnerable to enemies on all sides, and the king of Xuan had the idea of releasing Ji Chang. Soon, the Western Zhou Dynasty offered a BMW beauty in a timely manner and generously bribed the royal ministers, and the king happily released Ji Chang. Not only did he restore his title of "Xibo", but he also restored his power, placing him in full charge of the affairs of the western rebels.

Dashang is chaotic on the outside, and it is not calm on the inside. The power struggle between the clans is very fierce, and it is especially brutal because the struggle takes place between blood relatives.

The king killed his uncle, Prince Bigan, and imprisoned another uncle, Miko; The persecution of loved ones requires not only great courage, but also bitter hatred.

It is undeniable that the father of the king, Taiding, planted the seeds of the division of the royal family when he established the heir.

Since ancient times, there has been a saying of "Shang Tao kinship", and the Shang Dynasty people used blood relationship as the standard for judging intimacy; The blood relationship between brothers is close to that of father and son, so the status of the Shang king is generally passed on to the elder brother to the younger brother, and the last of the brothers to pass the throne to the son.

But the rules changed by the time of Wuding. Wu Ding reigned for fifty-nine years, and before he died, he turned his head to see that those younger brothers who had been looking forward to the throne were all gone, and none of them could survive him. So he could only pass the throne to his son. The follow-up Shang kings used the guise of "imitating the holy king", and the system of "brother to brother" existed in name only.

According to the merchant system, Taiding should pass the throne to his younger brother Bigan or Jizi; Even if it is not passed on to them, it should be passed on to the half-brother of the king, Weizi. But as mentioned earlier, Taiding's status when he got Xin was higher than when he got neutrons, so the status of the child's mother was also higher. So he said, "Ah! The son is more precious than the mother, and although the brothers were born to the same mother, Xin has a higher status. ”

Tai Ding relied on this self-deceptive excuse to pass the throne to Di Xin.

Bigan, Miko, and Weizi were all benevolent and upright, loyal to the royal family, and broad-hearted—and the king should rejoice in this, otherwise he would have died without a place to be buried. However, the good qualities that the three of them possessed at first appeared to be an unforgivable sin.

After the tragic death of the Nine Marquis and the Ehou Marquis, everyone in the court was in danger. The upright ministers were outraged, but most were terrified because the Emperor had begun to break the laws of the Shang Dynasty and kill people wantonly. The royal doctors then gathered around the trio, believing that they could only be safe if they were close to them.

Bigan's upright temperament and violent temper made him unable to tolerate his nephew's brutality. Then he was above the court, in the presence of his courtiers, begging him and exhorting him; When the above actions were ineffective, he accused him, cursed him, and even called him a "husband" and a "prince of the lost country".

And Chonghou Hu, who is sinister by nature, lost no time in interpreting Bigan's rhetoric as grandstanding, relying on the old and selling the old, winning over people's hearts, and blaspheming the royal power; It is said that this old guy is only waiting for the time to usurp the throne - after all, Bigan is qualified and has the idea to become the king of Shang.

This last sentence cost Bigan's life. The king was so furious that he went crazy and gouged out his uncle's heart. Chonghou Hu continued to incite the hatred of the king of the Su to the Mizi and Weizi, and the king immediately ordered the arrest of the two.

Neither Miko nor Miko were present at the time. When the king's soldiers broke into the door of Miko's house, they found that he had become mentally ill. Although Miko escaped by pretending to be insane, he could not escape the fate of being imprisoned; And Weizi took advantage of the chaos to escape.

The year after Ji Chang's release, King Zhou killed Prince Boyi, the prince of Zhou, who was serving as a hostage in Chaoge—perhaps because Ji Chang or Prince Zhou had done something disobedient, or perhaps because King Zhou's sanity had been soaked in alcohol.

The Zhou people were completely enraged, so the Zhou and Shang broke up. Ji Chang immediately proclaimed himself king, calling himself "King Wen of Zhou", and at the same time respected his father Ji Li as "Wang Ji", and respected his grandfather and father as "King Tai". Then he raised the banner of anti-Shang and brought two-thirds of the princes of the world under his command.

King Zhou's "nickname" has undergone a process of development from birth to death. Nicknames are divided into good and bad, and are expressed in positive or derogatory terms. The nickname system began with King Wen of Zhou; What is certain is that the nickname was used as a living name in the civil, military, Cheng, and Kang periods.

The first one to be called a dead slander must have been an evil slander, because the king's conduct must not have been worthy of the good slander he had determined for himself during his lifetime, so people changed it to a bad slander and warned those who came after him.

At this time, the national strength of the Western Zhou Dynasty was unprecedentedly strong, with many talents and many allies. Among the ministers were King Wen's two younger brothers, Yu Zhong and Uncle Yu, as well as Lu Shang, Tai Dian, Hongyao, Su Xinsheng with different surnames, and a group of celebrities who defected from the Shang Dynasty. King Wen's sons Ji Fa, Ji Xian, Ji Dan, and Ji Zheng have grown up and are beginning to hold important positions in the royal family.

King Wen rebuilt the ancestral temple and led his ministers to hold a grand ancestor worship ceremony. After the ceremony, he imprisoned himself and his ministers in the temple to plot a plan to destroy the merchants. In order to prevent leaks, King Wen placed heavy troops outside the temple to guard it, and no one was allowed to enter or leave - as if he was afraid that the people in the temple would escape.

All the people involved in the plan ate and lived in the ancestral temple, and after three days, the plan was decided, and King Wen walked out with a relaxed face and a solemn look with a smile on his face.

In the first step of the plan, the Zhou master destroyed the secret kingdom located in the northwest of the Zhou state. This country always provoked wars when the Zhou people were unlucky, and showed great hospitality when the Zhou people were proud.

King Wen said, "What a shameless monarch! What a fickle country! The Secret are now acting submissively, but who can guarantee that they will not invade our country when the Raiders lose? King Wen of Zhou then poured all the troops of the whole country to destroy the secret country, so that the Zhou division could let go and go east.

In the second step, the Zhou division used the state of Yu as a springboard to capture the state of Li (near Changye, Shanxi) and the state of Yu (west of Qinyang, Henan) to the west of Chaoge, thus opening the western gate of Gyeonggi of the Shang Dynasty.

In the third step, the Zhou division captured Chongguo (now Songshan, Henan) after a fierce battle, killed Chonghou Hu, and pulled out the last nail on the road to the east.

In the fourth step, King Wen moved the capital from Zhou Yuan to Fengdi, completing the eastward shift of the political, metallurgical and military center of gravity.

After moving the capital, the elderly King Wen of Zhou fell ill and died in Fengdu, and at this time King Wen had been changed to seven years. The crown prince Ji Fa ascended the throne as King Wu of Zhou.